Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A day in Wiki Women Workshop
Amazing blog post Pavithra, great job! More power to Women and glad to Kannada shining! On 28-Mar-2013, at 10:01 AM, Pavithra H wrote: Thanks everyone for your wishes and encouraging words. On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Nitika Tandon nit...@cis-india.org wrote: Congratulations to Pavithra and the entire Bangalore community for such a great initiative. Here's a blogpost about the Wiki Women's workshop we had organised at Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa. Special thanks to Rohini and Harriet for all their support and help. More power to Wiki Women! Nitika On 24-Mar-2013, at 6:39 PM, Pavithra H wrote: Hi All, Here is my blog post on Wiki Women Workshop that we conducted on 9th March. As we all know, Wikipedia is the world’s biggest encyclopedia and recognized as the 5th most website accessed by people across the globe. Being one of the biggest community driven project, Wikipedia has pooled in millions of articles which have been added/edited/monitored/ by people like you and me. By nature, gender has not only been the distinguishing factor for human being but also acts as a barrier to perform limited set of activities from the ages. At various stages of evolution, men and women have been continuously striving to overcome their boundaries which were set by themselves or by the society. It’s the same story when it comes to statistics of Wikipedians and the ratio of men and women participation is 9:1. To bridge this gap Wikipdedia has been organizing many activities to bring in more women participants around Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2013, many of the volunteer Wikipedians conducted workshops with dedicated focus to women across the India. On this occasion, I got an opportunity to organize the workshop in Bangalore as well for women with ideas floated by Nikita (EC member of India Chapter) and Radhakrishna (SIG chair Bangalore). With guidance and support by Sowmyan (EC member of India Chapter), Arun (founder member of India Wikipedia) and Omshivapraksh (Kannada SIG chair of Bangalore), we could conduct Wikipedia Women’s Workshop successfully for the first time in Bangalore on 9th of March at Servelots Infotech Pvt. Ltd. As mentioned in the event page, the workshop was started with giving an overview of Wikipedia and introduction of participants along with their interests. Continuing further participants were able to found their answers for their initial set of questions like what is Wikipedia all about? Why do we participate? Who all will edit? in about an hour session by Omshivaprakash. After a small tea break and a press byte organized by Pavanaja, the sessions were continued by introducing the next step to Wikipedia. i.e., How do we edit? To make our hands on session more interactive, we made one of our participant, Dr. A Sumitra to create an account live and explained various steps to edit Wikipedia like start a new page, edit a page, formatting, preview, adding references, history, etc. In between we played the recorded videos of Bishakha Datta and Netha Hussain who shared their experience with Wikipedia and their message on Women’s Day. With excited participants, we extended the session and took some more time to explain what else we can do beyond editing by giving a brief overview on other wiki projects like Commons, WikiBooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikitionary, MediaWiki, etc. New items on the cards: 1.During the event, Dr. A Sumitra based out of Bangalore did add the page on Nalini Nayak who is famous as India’s Fisher Women. 2.We have compiled a list of topics for Kannada Wikipedia for which women can participate in adding/enhancing the content on Wikipedia. 3.Our participant, Lakshimi Chaitanya has come forward to introduce many female achievers by adding content in Kannada Wikipedia. 4.Sumana from Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikipedians have been working on making audio files for Sanskrit Shlokas since few days and they are very happy to welcome volunteers who would like to join them in adding their content to Commons. Couple of other women who could not make it to the event also got in touch to be part of the celebrations by contributing to Kannada Wikipedia: 5.Recent Wikipedian, Shyamala Janardhan has been trying to add contents of HariKathamrutha Saara to WikiSource. 6.Savitha S.R. from Bangalore celebrating this occasion by adding contents of Vyasa Bharata -Kumara Vyasa to Wikipedia. I have created a new Facebook group called WikiWomen Bangalore to gather all women participants of Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. The space can be used to discuss and interact about topics around Wikipedia and to bring in more women participants to share their knowledge. I request all of you to join the group and share your thoughts. Also refer to event page
[Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Indic Wikipedia Visualization Project #1
Dear all, Here is the link to the blog post by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattopadhyay on the visualization of the growth of Indic Wikipedias: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters The data obtained is for the period from January 2001 to December 2012 and has been visualized into motion charts and calendar charts. The parameters used have also been listed chart wise. I am not sure if Sajjad and Sumandro are on the mailing lists but I would be happy to connect you with them or take the community responses to them if any. Best, Noopur ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Blog post from Benjamin Mako Hill about editor being sued
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Withheld Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:26 AM Subject: [Chapters] Blog post from Benjamin Mako Hill about editor being sued To: Chapters chapt...@wikimedia.ch I found this on facebook, being repeated several time. I suggest people with chapters and interested in editor retention or improving article quality read it. Thoroughly cited. http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-institute-for-cultural-diplomacy-and-wikipedia -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter todayhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photography event on Indian food
Wow. Great responses. We need to channelize all resources and idea's. Kindly consider creating event page on Wikimedia India Chapter site (http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events) What about having partnerships either with established restaurant or hotel-management school? Regards, -Abhishek Suryawanshi Wikipedia Club Pune On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Sanket Oswal sankos...@gmail.com wrote: Great Idea Yohann. I have photographed some delicacies from Gujarat and Rajasthan. I would love to contribute the same. On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking of proposing an online photography event on Indian food. Please suggest some ideas. Respectfully, Yohann Thomas Wikipedia Club Pune yohan...@gmail.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photography event on Indian food
Dear Abhishek sir, What about having partnerships either with established restaurant or hotel-management school? We can make out your idea which can really give unique output,In this reagrd i would like to contribute by talking to one of the hotel managment college which i have contacts with... Thankyou -- Thanks and Regards Suraj Gontla Graphic Designer ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Indic Wikipedia Visualization Project #1
Dear Friends, This is in continuation to the below mail from Noopur and to give it a better perspective. CIS-A2K has given a small consultancy to Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattopadhyay towards visualisation of the rich data offered by the Indic Wikipedia eco-system. As part of this assignment they are expected to build static visualizations (that visualises a static/unchanging set of data extracted from Indian language Wikipedia sites). The blog post link given by Noopur below is the first of our attempt to share with you all the initial set of visualizations. We believe this will be a useful tool for the Indian Wikimedia community. Please revert to us with your feedback and suggestions on how we can make it better. Here is the link of blog post again for your reference http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters Thank you. Vishnu On 28 March 2013 12:45, noopur noo...@cis-india.org wrote: ** Dear all, Here is the link to the blog post by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattopadhyay on the visualization of the growth of Indic Wikipedias: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters The data obtained is for the period from January 2001 to December 2012 and has been visualized into motion charts and calendar charts. The parameters used have also been listed chart wise. I am not sure if Sajjad and Sumandro are on the mailing lists but I would be happy to connect you with them or take the community responses to them if any. Best, Noopur ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Indic Wikipedia Visualization Project #1
Hi, Wondering if we could add milestones for each language and also important events undertaken by language Wikipedias to assess their impact. For eg, did WikiConference India 2011 have an impact or did Wikisangamotsavam have an impact on these figures considered here? Pradeep Handheld Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photography event on Indian food
Awesome, It really an awesome and impressive Idea of event since its online than this could cover wide whole country. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. Great responses. We need to channelize all resources and idea's. Kindly consider creating event page on Wikimedia India Chapter site ( http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events) What about having partnerships either with established restaurant or hotel-management school? Well Abhishek your suggestion is good but in what sense this could help us. I mean since we having this event online besides prizes in any other sense. -- -* *Sheel Sindhu Manohar ( शील सिंधु मनोहर ) http://ssmanohar.in *www.jmilug.org * - ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Article about Womens Day Wikipedia Club Pune in Sakal
thanks Priyanka, Lakshy, Abhinav. will surely keep you in loop regarding the next event :) Regards Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi http://www.facebook.com/niraj12 Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Punehttps://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Priyanka [via Wikimedia] ml-node+s7n5000237...@n6.nabble.com wrote: appreciative work Do let know if you are planning such event initiatives for women in future. I would be obliged to be a part of it. -- If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Article-about-Womens-Day-Wikipedia-Club-Pune-in-Sakal-tp5000207p5000237.html To start a new topic under WikiMedia India, email ml-node+s7n1399899...@n6.nabble.com To unsubscribe from Article about Womens Day Wikipedia Club Pune in Sakal, click herehttp://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_codenode=5000207code=bmlyYWouc3VyeWF3YW5zaGlAZ21haWwuY29tfDUwMDAyMDd8LTE3NDQ0MzE3NTk= . NAMLhttp://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewerid=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.namlbase=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespacebreadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml - Regards Thanks, Niraj N. Suryawanshi Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Pune +91 814 992 0120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Article-about-Womens-Day-Wikipedia-Club-Pune-in-Sakal-tp5000207p5000567.html Sent from the WikiMedia India mailing list archive at Nabble.com.___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
